Leadership Employees Perception On Team And Organization - Case Study Essay.

Discuss about the Leadership Employees Perception on Team and Organization.

Leadership forms the guiding principle which controls and directs human resources and employees within an organization (Walumbwa, 2011). The scope of leadership application within an organization is huge and without an effective leadership, an organization might fail to accomplish its desired objectives. As leadership is imperative within an organization, it roles and functions involves making employees work within teams and in obtaining performance from them accordingly. The scope of the current report focuses on leadership perception of teams in Dana Air, Nigeria and the ways roles of a leader influences organizational productivity and performance. Dana Air is a Nigerian airline with its headquarters based in Ikeja, it was established in the year 2008 (www.flydanaair.com, Retrieved on 6th April 2017). Though it is an airline with a small fleet size yet the Company remains highly profitable in the various sectors that it operates. The airline operates mostly on small sectors within Africa especially in small distance segments near Nigeria. The flight experienced drop in productivity and performance post its flight crash in the year, post which it adopted transformational style of leadership. This leadership style has helped it gain considerable increase in productivity and team level performance (Givens, 2008).  

The statement of the problem for the purpose of analyzing case study is as follows;

• In order to understand the past leadership challenges faced by the Company.
• To understand the current leadership attributes that has led to productivity and team performance within employees.
• In order to diagnose the key leadership attributes required by the current case Company(Jing, 2011).

In order to reach the goals for the study the following research aims and objectives need to be ascertained.

• Research Objective 1: To understand the past leadership style adopted by the Company and its challenges
• Research Objective 2: To diagnose the key reason for failure in the last leadership style
• Research Objective 3: To analyse the current leadership style adopted by the Company
• Research Objective 4: To understand the effectiveness of the current leadership style and nature in gaining team performance and objectives

In order to test the relevance and validity of the study two research hypotheses has been adopted (Obiwuru, 2011). The research hypothesis adopted for the purpose of the problem is Null Hypothesis and Alternate Hypothesis. The underlying assumption in Null Hypothesis is that leadership does not impact performance in organizations. In Alternate Hypothesis the underlying assumption is leadership greatly influences performance within organizations. All data quantitative in nature will be tested for Null and Alternate hypothesis in order to their impacts.   

The study has immense importance and significance for the scope of the current organization. The following are the reasons the study will contribute to significance for the Company.

• The scope of this study analyses all relevant impacts of leadership within Dana Air. Appropriate analysis of the study with various factors will help determine connection with respect to increase in employee productivity with that of leadership(Choudhary, 2013). 
• The various impacts of previous leadership styles will be taken into consideration to analyse the reasons for place crash and loss of lives of passengers. This will highly benefit the organization in the long term.
• Most important impact of this study will be to analyse the impact of this study with respect understanding correlation with productivity. High levels of competition have deterred growth and development prospects of most airlines in Nigeria leading to most airlines in losing their core competency. An effective leader will be able to diagnose and motivate employees to strive towards goals which can easily be accomplished by the airline and become a leader in the marketplace(Jansen, 2008).

The following sources of literature have been adopted in order to attain aims and goals for the study. A. A. D'amato  article, “Leadership of organizational change toward an integrated model of leadership for corporate responsibility and sustainable development: A process model of corporate responsibility beyond management innovation (No. 2013/164611).” In the ULB--Universite Libre de Bruxelles reflects on the various important aspects and application of leadership (D'amato, 2009). This journal helps understanding the various motibvation and innovative goals that a team is capable of attaining through a leader.

Objectives of the Study

A leader is person from the organiation who tranforms organziational golas and objectives into achievables. A leader is capable in doing so by maintaining proper communciation between employee and the organization. Hence, an effective leader is capable of motivating team and making employees his followers such that all directives given by him can be followed. Thus, the central role of a leader is to gain confidence of the employees and lead them towards objectives and  goals defined by the organization (Wang, 2010). A leader is seen a part of the organization and team synonymously, hence his role is pertinent and important. An effective leader can greatly contribute in making the organization a better workplace and provide employees with high levels of satisfaction within their job.

D.-S. Noruzy article, “Relations between transformational leadership, organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational innovation, and organizational performance: an empirical investigation of manufacturing firms.” In The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, pages 1073 to 1085 also establishes a relation between a leader and a employee performance(Noruzy, 2013). X. A. Zhang article, “Linking transformational leadership and team performance: A conflict management approach.” In Journal of Management Studies, pages 1586 to 1611 establishes relation between employee and a leader(Zhang, 2011).

Various cases of organization has been researched and can be established where without existence of leader, performance has been dampened. Traditional organizational structures greatly depended on minimum communication with their employees, but that approach has transformed and emerged into a dynamic form (Nielsen, 2009). Contemporary organizations are finding ways and means to communicate their motives and objectives to their employees such that they can get significant impact from the same. The role of a leader is highly recognized and is held as an important factor for accommodating change and transformation for growth within organizations. Previously organizations used to follow and adopt servant leadership and transactional leadership styles, but contemporary organizations adopts more transformational leadership in order to meet its aims and visions of sustenance. The case of Dana Airlines can be analyzed as a Company that previously did not attach much importance to leadership styles but post accidents and cancelling of its license it focused on rebuilding its team in order to attain efficiency in performance. The role of leader has been considered to be extremely useful in considering employee performance, as it is the leader who establishes organizational connection with the employees and employees is able to provide feedback to the organization through their leaders.

Research Hypotheses

In order to conduct any type of study a particular research methodology and data collection technique needs to be adopted. For the purpose of this study data of secondary nature and primary has been collected. The data of qualitative as well as quantitative has been analyzed as well. In order to conduct this study data collection technique adopted for primary research will be through surveys, questionnaires, interviews, feedback forms and so on. In case of secondary data collection, data has been collected from journals, books, internet, company magazines and so on. Once the data has been collected, it has been analyzed by means of inductive technique where one concept leads to the other. For quantitative data analysis and to test hypothesis, several statistical methods as correlation and regression and other processes have been adopted. Once data collected has been analyzed, the findings will be summarized to gain results from the data. In order to collect data from primary sources, sampling techniques will be used for the purpose of the study. As sampling methods will help collect data from a diversified group with various features. Once the findings have been obtained post analysis of various data type, results will be organized to check for hypothesis. In case data corresponds to null hypothesis then it will be established that leadership does not have impact on organizational and employee performance levels. In case the data corresponds to alternate hypothesis then it can be established that leadership does impact performance levels within organizations.

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www.flydanaair.com. (Retrieved on 6th April 2017). Dana Air. https://www.flydanaair.com/.

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